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| complete name: |
Sir Howard Walter Florey |
| nobel prize: |
medicine |
| award year: |
1945 |
| together with: |
Alexander Fleming |
| together with: |
Ernst Chain |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/3 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 was awarded jointly to Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter Florey "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Howard |
| family name: |
Florey |
| occupation: |
physician |
| occupation: |
politician |
| occupation: |
pharmacist |
| occupation: |
professor |
| occupation: |
chemist |
| occupation: |
pathologist |
| work location: |
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom |
| description: |
Sir Howard Walter Florey was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the development of penicillin. Although Fleming received most of the credit for the discovery of penicillin, it was Florey who carried out the first ever clinical trials in 1941 of penicillin at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford on the first patient, a postmaster from Wolvercote near Oxford. The patient started to recover but subsequently died because Florey was unable, at that time, to make enough penicillin. It was Florey and Chain who actually made a useful and effective drug out of penicillin, after the task had been abandoned as too difficult. Florey's discoveries, along with Alexander Fleming and Ernst Chain, are estimated to have saved over 82 million lives, and he is consequently regarded by the Australian scientific and medical community as one of its greatest figures. Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, said, "In terms of world well-being, Florey was the most important man ever born in Australia". |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1945/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1898 |
| date death: |
1968 |
| usual name: |
Howard Florey |
